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2015 in paleomammalogy

2015 in paleomammalogy

Overview of the events of 2015 in paleomammalogy


This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2015, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.

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General research

  • Description of exceptionally preserved specimens of the pantodont species Alcidedorbignya inopinata and a study of its phylogenetic relationships is published by De Muizon et al. (2015).[1]
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the family Nyctitheriidae based on new fossil remains of Plagioctenodon rosei and Plagioctenodon thewisseni is published by Manz et al. (2015).[2]
  • Studies of the phylogenetic relationships of litopterns and notoungulates within Placentalia, indicating that their closest living relatives are odd-toed ungulates, are published by Welker et al. (2015)[3] and Buckley (2015).[4]
  • A study of the phylogenetic relationships of the Pleistocene camelid genus Camelops, based on genomic data extracted from its bones, is published by Heintzman et al. (2015).[5]
  • A study on the feeding habits of extant and fossil members of the family Canidae belonging to the tribe Canini, as indicated by skull size and shape, is published by Meloro, Hudson & Hook (2015).[6]
  • A study on the population dynamics of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea) during the Late Pleistocene is published by Ersmark et al. (2015).[7]
  • Description of tarsals attributed to Purgatorius and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of this mammal is published by Chester et al. (2015).[8]
  • A study on the age of the holotype specimen of Darwinius masillae at the time of death and on the life history of the species is published by López-Torres, Schillaci & Silcox (2015).[9]
  • Cranial endocast of Victoriapithecus macinessi is reconstructed by Gonzales et al. (2015).[10]
  • A study evaluating the evidence of association between extinctions or replacements of large mammals in the Northern Hemisphere in the Late Pleistocene with warming events is published by Cooper et al. (2015).[11]

Metatherians

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Eutherians

Xenarthrans

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Afrotherians

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Bats

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Odd-toed ungulates

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Even-toed ungulates

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Cetaceans

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Carnivorans

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Rodents

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Primates

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References

  1. Christian De Muizon; Guillaume Billet; Christine Argot; Sandrine Ladevèze; Florent Goussard (2015). "Alcidedorbignya inopinata, a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia: anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 37 (4): 397–634. doi:10.5252/g2015n4a1. S2CID 131556174.
  2. Carly L. Manz; Stephen G. B. Chester; Jonathan I. Bloch; Mary T. Silcox; Eric J. Sargis (2015). "New partial skeletons of Palaeocene Nyctitheriidae and evaluation of proposed euarchontan affinities". Biology Letters. 11 (1): 20140911. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0911. PMC 4321154. PMID 25589486.
  3. Frido Welker; Matthew J. Collins; Jessica A. Thomas; Marc Wadsley; Selina Brace; Enrico Cappellini; Samuel T. Turvey; Marcelo Reguero; Javier N. Gelfo; Alejandro Kramarz; Joachim Burger; Jane Thomas-Oates; David A. Ashford; Peter D. Ashton; Keri Rowsell; Duncan M. Porter; Benedikt Kessler; Roman Fischer; Carsten Baessmann; Stephanie Kaspar; Jesper V. Olsen; Patrick Kiley; James A. Elliott; Christian D. Kelstrup; Victoria Mullin; Michael Hofreiter; Eske Willerslev; Jean-Jacques Hublin; Ludovic Orlando; Ian Barnes; Ross D. E. MacPhee (2015). "Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates". Nature. 522 (7554): 81–84. Bibcode:2015Natur.522...81W. doi:10.1038/nature14249. hdl:11336/14769. PMID 25799987. S2CID 4467386.
  4. Michael Buckley (2015). "Ancient collagen reveals evolutionary history of the endemic South American 'ungulates'". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1806): 20142671. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2671. PMC 4426609. PMID 25833851.
  5. Peter D. Heintzman; Grant D. Zazula; James A. Cahill; Alberto V. Reyes; Ross D.E. MacPhee; Beth Shapiro (2015). "Genomic Data from Extinct North American Camelops Revise Camel Evolutionary History". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32 (9): 2433–2440. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv128. PMID 26037535.
  6. C. Meloro; A. Hudson; L. Rook (2015). "Feeding habits of extant and fossil canids as determined by their skull geometry" (PDF). Journal of Zoology. 295 (3): 178–188. doi:10.1111/jzo.12196. S2CID 53470754.
  7. Erik Ersmark; Ludovic Orlando; Edson Sandoval-Castellanos; Ian Barnes; Ross Barnett; Anthony Stuart; Adrian Lister; Love Dalén (2015). "Population Demography and Genetic Diversity in the Pleistocene Cave Lion". Open Quaternary. 1 (1): Art. 4. doi:10.5334/oq.aa.
  8. Stephen G. B. Chester; Jonathan I. Bloch; Doug M. Boyer; William A. Clemens (2015). "Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (5): 1487–1492. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.1487C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421707112. PMC 4321231. PMID 25605875.
  9. Sergi López-Torres; Michael A. Schillaci; Mary T. Silcox (2015). "Life history of the most complete fossil primate skeleton: exploring growth models for Darwinius". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (9): 150340. Bibcode:2015RSOS....250340L. doi:10.1098/rsos.150340. PMC 4593690. PMID 26473056.
  10. Lauren A. Gonzales; Brenda R. Benefit; Monte L. McCrossin; Fred Spoor (2015). "Cerebral complexity preceded enlarged brain size and reduced olfactory bulbs in Old World monkeys". Nature Communications. 6: Article number 7580. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7580G. doi:10.1038/ncomms8580. PMC 4506532. PMID 26138795.
  11. Alan Cooper; Chris Turney; Konrad A. Hughen; Barry W. Brook; H. Gregory McDonald; Corey J. A. Bradshaw (2015). "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover". Science. 349 (6248): 602–606. Bibcode:2015Sci...349..602C. doi:10.1126/science.aac4315. PMID 26250679. S2CID 31686497.
  12. Ascanio D. Rincón; Bruce J. Shockey; Federico Anaya; Andrés Solórzano (2015). "Palaeothentid Marsupials of the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Two New Species and Insights into the Post-Eocene Radiation of Palaeothentoids". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (4): 455–471. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9295-8. S2CID 2940122.
  13. Robin M.D. Beck (2015). "A peculiar faunivorous metatherian from the early Eocene of Australia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (1): 123–129. doi:10.4202/app.2013.0011.
  14. Édison Vicente de Oliveira; Francisco J. Goin (2015). "A new species of Gaylordia Paula Couto (Mammalia, Metatheria) from Itaboraí, Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 18 (1): 97–108. doi:10.4072/rbp.2015.1.07.
  15. Shundong Bi; Xingsheng Jin; Shuo Li; Tianming Du (2015). "A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China". PeerJ. 3: e896. doi:10.7717/peerj.896. PMC 4400878. PMID 25893149.
  16. Catalina Suarez; AnalÍa M. Forasiepi; Francisco J. Goin; Carlos Jaramillo (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics Prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581. S2CID 86264178.
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  18. Kenny J. Travouillon; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Jeanette Muirhead (2015). "Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (2): 141–167. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8. S2CID 14643777.
  19. Philippa Brewer; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Richard Abel (2015). "New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia)". Palaeontologia Electronica. 18 (1): Article number 18.1.9A. doi:10.26879/472.
  20. Richard L. Cifelli; Brian M. Davis (2015). "Tribosphenic mammals from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana and Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e920848. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0848C. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.920848. S2CID 128942735.
  21. Julien Louys (2015). "Wombats (Vombatidae: Marsupialia) from the Pliocene Chinchilla Sand, southeast Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 39 (3): 394–406. Bibcode:2015Alch...39..394L. doi:10.1080/03115518.2015.1014737. S2CID 129092884.
  22. María Alejandra Abello; Martín de los Reyes; Adriana Magdalena Candela; Francois Pujos; Damián Voglino; Bernardino Mamani Quispe (2015). "Description of a new species of Sparassocynus (Marsupialia: Didelphoidea: Sparassocynidae) from the late Miocene of Jujuy (Argentina) and taxonomic review of Sparassocynus heterotopicus from the Pliocene of Bolivia". Zootaxa. 3937 (1): 147–160. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.7. hdl:11336/48565. PMID 25947465.
  23. Guillermo W. Rougier; Brian M. Davis; Michael J. Novacek (2015). "A deltatheroidan mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Baynshiree Formation, eastern Mongolia". Cretaceous Research. 52, Part A: 167–177. Bibcode:2015CrRes..52..167R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.009.
  24. Kenny J. Travouillon; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand (2015). "Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 39 (2): 274–286. Bibcode:2015Alch...39..274T. doi:10.1080/03115518.2015.994115. S2CID 83976717.
  25. Ascanio D. Rincón; H. Gregory McDonald; Andrés Solórzano; Mónica Núñez Flores; Damián Ruiz-Ramoni (2015). "A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (2): 140256. Bibcode:2015RSOS....240256R. doi:10.1098/rsos.140256. PMC 4448802. PMID 26064594.
  26. Martin Pickford (2015). "Late Eocene Potamogalidae and Tenrecidae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 114–152.
  27. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Daryl P. Domning (2015). "Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e885034. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E5034V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.885034. S2CID 84600341.
  28. Martin Pickford (2015). "Chrysochloridae (Mammalia) from the Lutetian (Middle Eocene) of Black Crow, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 105–113.
  29. Martin Pickford (2015). "Late Eocene Chrysochloridae (Mammalia) from the Sperrgebiet, Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 153–193.
  30. Athanassios Athanassiou; Victoria Herridge; David S. Reese; George Iliopoulos; Socrates Roussiakis; Vassiliki Mitsopoulou; Efthymios Tsiolakis; George Theodorou (2015). "Cranial evidence for the presence of a second endemic elephant species on Cyprus". Quaternary International. 379: 47–57. Bibcode:2015QuInt.379...47A. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.065.
  31. Shiqi Wang; Tao Deng; Tao Tang; Guangpu Xie; Yuguang Zhang; Duoqing Wang (2015). "Evolution of Protoanancus (Proboscidea, Mammalia) in East Asia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e881830. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E1830W. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.881830. S2CID 85952877.
  32. Martin Pickford (2015). "New Titanohyracidae (Hyracoidea: Afrotheria) from the Late Eocene of Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 200–214.
  33. Pauline M.C. Coster; K. Christopher Beard; Mustafa Salem; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Michel Brunet; Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2015). "A new early Oligocene mammal fauna from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 104: 43–55. Bibcode:2015JAfES.104...43C. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.01.006.
  34. Gregg F. Gunnell; Percy M. Butler; Marjorie Greenwood; Nancy B. Simmons (2015). "Bats (Chiroptera) from Olduvai Gorge, Early Pleistocene, Bed I (Tanzania)". American Museum Novitates (3846): 1–36. doi:10.1206/3846.1. hdl:2246/6628. S2CID 86236038.
  35. Suzanne J. Hand; Bernard Sigé; Michael Archer; Gregg F. Gunnell; Nancy B. Simmons (2015). "A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9. S2CID 18267639.
  36. Suzanne J. Hand; Daphne E. Lee; Trevor H. Worthy; Michael Archer; Jennifer P. Worthy; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Steven W. Salisbury; R. Paul Scofield; Dallas C. Mildenhall; Elizabeth M. Kennedy; Jon K. Lindqvist (2015). "Miocene Fossils Reveal Ancient Roots for New Zealand's Endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and Its Rainforest Habitat". PLOS ONE. 10 (6): e0128871. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028871H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128871. PMC 4470663. PMID 26083758.
  37. Valentina V. Rosina (2015). "First Neogene Otonycteris (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Ukraine: its biostratigraphic and paleogeographic significance". Palæovertebrata. 39 (1): e2. doi:10.18563/pv.39.1.e2.
  38. Leonardo Dos Santos Avilla; Camila Bernardes; Dimila Mothé (2015). "A new genus for Onohippidium galushai Macfadden and Skinner, 1979 (Mammalia, Equidae), from the late Hemphillian of North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e925909. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E5909S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.925909. S2CID 84050697.
  39. Jean-Albert Remy (2015). "Les Périssodactyles (Mammalia) du gisement Bartonien supérieur de Robiac (Éocène moyen du Gard, Sud de la France)". Palæovertebrata. 39 (1): e3. doi:10.18563/pv.39.1.e3.
  40. Céline Robinet; Jean Albert Rémy; Yves Laurent; Laure Danilo; Fabrice Lihoreau (2015). "A new genus of Lophiodontidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the early Eocene of La Borie (Southern France) and the origin of the genus Lophiodon Cuvier, 1822". Geobios. 48 (1): 25–38. Bibcode:2015Geobi..48...25R. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2014.11.003.
  41. Luca Pandolfi (2015). "Persiatherium rodleri, gen. et sp. nov. (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the upper Miocene of Maragheh (northwestern Iran)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1040118. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1040118. S2CID 86106116.
  42. R.L. Bernor; B. Sun; Y. Chen (2015). "Plesiohipparion shanxiense n. sp. from the Early Pleistocene (Nihowanian) of E Shanxi, China". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 54 (3): 197–210.
  43. Thierry Smith; Floréal Solé; Pieter Missiaen; Rajendra Rana; Kishor Kumar; Ashok Sahni; Kenneth D. Rose (2015). "First early Eocene tapiroid from India and its implication for the paleobiogeographic origin of perissodactyls". Palæovertebrata. 39 (2): e5. doi:10.18563/pv.39.2.e5.
  44. Stéphane Ducrocq; Mouloud Benammi; Olivier Chavasseau; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Kantapon Suraprasit; Phan dong Pha; Vu le Phuong; Phung van Phach & Jean-jacques Jaeger (2015). "New anthracotheres (Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of northeastern Vietnam: biochronological implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e929139. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E9139D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.929139. S2CID 128991949.
  45. Alexander Averianov; Ekaterina Obraztsova; Igor Danilov; Jianhua Jin (2019). "Anthracotheriid artiodactyl Anthracokeryx and an upper Eocene age for the Youganwo Formation of southern China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (9): 1115–1122. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1421639. S2CID 90645448.
  46. Kantapon Suraprasit; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Olivier Chavasseau & Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2015). "Middle Miocene bovids from Mae Moh Basin, Northern Thailand: The first record of the genus Eotragus from Southeast Asia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (1): 67–78. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0061.
  47. Fabrice Lihoreau; Jean-Renaud Boisserie; Fredrick Kyalo Manthi; Stéphane Ducrocq (2015). "Hippos stem from the longest sequence of terrestrial cetartiodactyl evolution in Africa". Nature Communications. 6: Article number 6264. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6264L. doi:10.1038/ncomms7264. PMID 25710445.
  48. Jan van der Made & Vesna Dimitrijević (2015). "Eucladoceros montenegrensis n. sp. and other Cervidae from the Lower Pleistocene of Trlica (Montenegro)". Quaternary International. 389: 90–118. Bibcode:2015QuInt.389...90V. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.058.
  49. Sukuan Hou (2015). "A new species of Euprox (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) from the upper Miocene of the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, China, with interpretation of its paleoenvironment". Zootaxa. 3911 (1): 43–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.2. PMID 25661595.
  50. Ansuya Bhandari; Martin Pickford; Brahma Nand Tiwari (2015). Basal Late Miocene Mammal Fauna from Tapar and Pasuda, Kachchh. Vol. 43. pp. 1–40. ISBN 978-3-89937-199-4. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  51. Antoine Souron; Jean-Renaud Boisserie; Tim D. White (2015). "A new species of the suid genus Kolpochoerus from Ethiopia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (1): 79–96. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0083.
  52. Donald R. Prothero (2015). "Evolution of the early miocene hesperhyine peccaries" (PDF). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 67: 235–255.
  53. Maëva J. Orliac; Levent Karadenizli; Pierre-Olivier Antoine; Sevket Sen (2015). "Small hyotheriine suids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late early Miocene of Turkey and a short overview of early Miocene small suoids in the Old World". Palaeontologia Electronica. 18 (2): Article number 18.2.30A. doi:10.26879/547.
  54. Aldo F. Rincon; Jonathan I. Bloch; Bruce J. Macfadden & Carlos A. Jaramillo (2015). "New early Miocene protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e970688. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0688R. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.970688. S2CID 12659384.
  55. Elisabeth S. Vrba; Faysal Bibi & August G. Costa (2015). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4): e943399. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3399V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. S2CID 83914701.
  56. Israel M. Sánchez; Juan L. Cantalapiedra; María Ríos; Victoria Quiralte; Jorge Morales (2015). "Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)". PLOS ONE. 10 (12): e0143034. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1043034S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143034. PMC 4668073. PMID 26630174.
  57. Albert E. Sanders; Jonathan H. Geisler (2015). "A new basal odontocete from the upper Rupelian of South Carolina, U.S.A., with contributions to the systematics of Xenorophus and Mirocetus (Mammalia, Cetacea)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e890107. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0107S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.890107. S2CID 85040115.
  58. Wouter Colpaert; Mark Bosselaers; Olivier Lambert (2015). "Out of the Pacific: a second fossil porpoise from the Pliocene of the North Sea Basin". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (1): 1–10. doi:10.4202/app.00115.2014.
  59. Olivier Lambert; Christian De Muizon; Giovanni Bianucci (2015). "A new archaic homodont toothed cetacean (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Peru". Geodiversitas. 37 (1): 79–108. doi:10.5252/g2015n1a4. hdl:11568/773624. S2CID 53635118.
  60. Philip D. Gingerich; Samir Zouhri (2015). "New fauna of archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Bartonian middle Eocene of southern Morocco". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 111: 273–286. Bibcode:2015JAfES.111..273G. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.08.006.
  61. Cheng-Hsiu Tsai; R. Ewan Fordyce (2015). "The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (4): 535–560. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9290-0. S2CID 14418707.
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  63. Nicholas D. Pyenson; Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Carolina S. Gutstein; Holly Little; Dioselina Vigil; Aaron O'Dea (2015). "Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of 'river dolphins' in the Americas". PeerJ. 3: e1227. doi:10.7717/peerj.1227. PMC 4562255. PMID 26355720.
  64. Yoshihiro Tanaka; R. Ewan Fordyce (2015). "A new Oligo-Miocene dolphin from New Zealand: Otekaikea huata expands diversity of the early Platanistoidea". Palaeontologia Electronica. 18 (2): Article number 18.2.23A. doi:10.26879/518.
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  66. Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro; Nicholas D. Pyenson; Carolina S. Gutstein; Mario E. Suárez (2015). "A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (1): 101–115. doi:10.1002/spp2.1033. S2CID 54082356.
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  68. Robert M. Hunt JR.; Ellen Stepleton (2015). "A skull of the immigrant Eurasian beardog Cynelos (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the early Miocene of southern California". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e891229. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E1229H. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.891229. S2CID 129654383.
  69. Irina A. Koretsky; Sulman J. Rahmat (2015). "A new species of the subfamily Devinophocinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the central Paratethys". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 121 (1): 31–47. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/6399. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  70. Robert W. Boessenecker; Morgan Churchill (2015). "The oldest known fur seal". Biology Letters. 11 (2): 20140835. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0835. PMC 4360102. PMID 25672999.
  71. Denis Geraads; Zeresenay Alemseged; René Bobe; Denné Reed (2015). "Pliocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation at Dikika, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 107: 28–35. Bibcode:2015JAfES.107...28G. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.03.020.
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